Here the Doctor recalls his first days in the Big Easy at the ripe old age of 18. “When I first came to New Orleans everything was new and exotic to me,” says the Doctor, who we meet here. “It was almost like going to France; you had to learn a new vocabulary. The language…completely different. Charming. Fascinating. Addictive.”

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